Boys<\/p>\n
Division 5<\/p>\n
No. 1 Sonoma Academy 48, No. 9 Middletown 42<\/p>\n
The Coyotes checked off two more milestones in what\u2019s become a historic season with their comeback victory over the Mustangs in the second round of the North Coast Section playoffs Friday night in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n
This is now the most wins in a season in program history for Sonoma Academy (22-5) and the first time that they\u2019ve advanced to the semifinals of the section playoffs.<\/p>\n
Middletown (19-9), the champs of the NCL I, didn\u2019t make it easy.<\/p>\n
In their second meeting of the year \u2013 Middletown won the first 54-51 \u2013 the Mustangs led most of the way before a fourth-quarter rally by the Coyotes.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Marcel Nsizoa Ndi led the charge, scoring 10 of his game-high 24 points in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Coyotes tailed 33-28 after three and were down 37-31 early in the fourth before the comeback.<\/p>\n
Nsizoa Ndi also sealed the game in the final seconds, forcing a steal and taking it all the way for a dunk to push the final margin from four to six.<\/p>\n
Sonoma Academy will have a rematch with a regular-season opponent for the third straight game in the semifinals Tuesday night when they host No. 4 seed Drew (20-10), which beat the Coyotes 64-61 in early January.<\/p>\n
Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Division 5<\/p>\n
No. 10 Sonoma Academy 51, No. 2 Albany 31<\/p>\n
The Coyotes pulled off a huge upset on the road Friday night to advance to the section semifinals for the second straight year.<\/p>\n
Sonoma Academy (15-10) led 24-16 at halftime and gradually pulled away from the Cougars (15-11) throughout the second half.<\/p>\n
Summer Weiner hit five three-pointers en route to a game-high 24 points. Siena Jasper added 13 points and Layla Zekarias chipped in 11.<\/p>\n
The Coyotes will play at No. 6 seed San Domenico (11-13) in the semifinals at 7 p.m. Tuesday<\/p>\n
Open Division<\/p>\n
No. 3 Piedmont 66, No. 6 Cardinal Newman 45<\/p>\n
The Cardinals hung tough with the No. 29 team in the state, but the host Highlanders pulled away in the fourth quarter Thursday night for the win.<\/p>\n
Newman (21-8), which will play again Wednesday, trailed just 47-41 heading to the fourth quarter before being outscored 19-4 in the final frame. The Cardinals shot just 29.8% from the field and couldn\u2019t recover from 21 turnovers.<\/p>\n
Macie Flores scored 16 points while Avery Vinson added 15 for Newman.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals will face No. 5 seed Bishop O\u2019Dowd in Wednesday\u2019s fifth-place game. All teams in the Open Division will advance to the Northern California tournament in two weeks.<\/p>\n
Other scores<\/p>\n
Division 1: No. 1 Redwood 62, No. 9 Maria Carrillo 28<\/p>\n
Division 5: No. 4 Healdsburg 35, No. 5 Credo 28<\/p>\n
NCS Playoff Schedule<\/p>\n
Saturday, Feb. 21<\/p>\n
Boys<\/p>\n
Division 2<\/p>\n
No. 2 Cardinal Newman vs. No. 7 San Lorenzo, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 8 Casa Grande at No. 1 University-San Francisco, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Division 4<\/p>\n
No. 2 Rancho Cotate vs. No. 10 Montgomery, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Division 6<\/p>\n
No. 1 St. Vincent vs. No. 8 Jewish Community, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Division 2<\/p>\n
No. 3 Justin-Siena vs. No. 11 James Logan, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 8 American Canyon at No. 1 Salesian, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 13 Sonoma Valley at No. 5 Lick-Wilmerding, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Division 4<\/p>\n
No. 1 Rancho Cotate vs. No. 9 Vintage, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 3 St. Helena vs. No. 6 Marin Academy, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 7 Santa Rosa at No. 2 Branson, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Division 6<\/p>\n
No. 3 Grace Christian Academy vs. No. 6 CA School for the Deaf-Fremont, Laguna HS, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 5 St. Vincent at No. 4 Laytonville, 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Feb. 24<\/p>\n
Boys<\/p>\n
Division 5<\/p>\n
No. 1 Sonoma Academy vs. No. 4 Drew, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Division 5<\/p>\n
No. 4 Healdsburg vs. No. 9 Gateway, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 10 Sonoma Academy at No. 6 San Domenico, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Feb. 25<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Open Division, fifth place<\/p>\n
No. 6 Cardinal Newman at No. 5 Bishop O\u2019Dowd, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boys Division 5 No. 1 Sonoma Academy 48, No. 9 Middletown 42 The Coyotes checked off two more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,160,3255,23386,29085,81490,23392,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-615858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-north-bay","12":"tag-northern-california","13":"tag-santa-rosa","14":"tag-sonoma-county","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116108950624078819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}